🧥 Shabby or untidy 👨‍🌾 A rural person 🧽 A cleaning cloth

raggie

9.9

A person from the countryside often called a rude name

noun

Slur

: paleto

The raggies often gather together at the local pub to share stories and enjoy each other's company.

Examples

It got to the point that any talk of the raggies made him think of the whiskey omelet, and Bob slapping his knee, then blowing his nose, kind of loud.

Fiction book (1995)
And the raggies walked on top of that great mound of smoldering wood, pushing long poles down into the pile to let a breath of air in just to keep the fire going right.

Fiction book (1995)
People sometimes make fun of the raggies for their unique traditions and way of life in the countryside.
Although they were known as raggies, their close-knit community was something special that outsiders couldn't understand.

Synonyms

toe rag

vsraggie

Offensive

1 9.9

A person who is very unpleasant and treats others badly

targets people for rural or group membership rather than general character attack

Surface Forms

raggie singular

raggies plural

Morphology

raggie = rag (opaque) = rag + ie

The word appears to be built on rag + -ie, but the slang sense 'rural person' is not a standard or easily guessable meaning from those parts.

Etymology

Raggie as a noun likely grew from rag ('torn cloth') plus -ie, and a helpful way to remember this use is to imagine people calling someone a raggie when they wore rough, simple clothes. That is why raggie can mean a person from the countryside or a local group, sometimes in a teasing way.